As the hand held before the eye conceals the greatest mountain, so the little earthly life hides from the glance the enormous lights and mysteries of which the world is full, and he who can...

Wisdom is a dreadfully wonderful gift,giving you great insight but terrible pain that you learn from.

Forrest Gander: “Maybe the best we can do is try to leave ourselves unprotected. To keep brushing off habits, how we see things and what we expect, as they crust around us. Brushing the green...

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Look closely Jane. This is Majesty Park, the city of wonder. Here you are free to dream dreams and follow them wherever they may take you.

Life is never ordinary, it is always a wonder, it is always magical.

Do you know I don’t know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving...

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep awe and joy that the natural order of things brings to...

We make violent cops, we make violent criminals, and no wonder we have shootouts in slums all of the time.

My foot slips on a narrow ledge; in that split second, as needles of fear pierce heart and temples, eternity intersects with present time. Thought and action are not different, and stone, air, ice, sun,...

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Todos deberíamos recibir una ovación al menos una vez en nuestra vida, porque todos vencemos al mundo.

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

So yeah, maybe this will be the rest of our lives. Pot roast and Diet Cokes and my parents making eyes at each other. As for those slaps and punches and hateful words, we’ll just...

Without wonder, there’s no progress. Nothing gets done, nobody goes anywhere. If you don’t exercise your capacity for wonder… well, use it or lose it. A civilization without wonder is a civilization that’s starting to...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

On bad days you wonder, ‘Why not just back off from the war and lead a quiet metalife?

I think about her sometimes, and wonder what she’s doing and who she’s doing it with. I suppose I could just stalk her Facebook page like a normal person, but that doesn’t seem as romantic...

I need more frugality. I wonder where I can buy some.

At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this...

The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome...

Wonder, like life, ignores logic.

The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvoisiers in that the surprises the Duchesse de Guermantes perpetually held in store for her...

It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe.

to him who contemplates it reverently.” … What’s the most beautiful part of the world, the part that has the greatest dignity? It’s not really a part but a person – it’s every person. Personal...

If you celebrate your differentness, the world will, too. It believes exactly what you tell it—through the words you use to describe yourself, the actions you take to care for yourself, and the choices you...

One of the reasons I grew my hair long last year was that I like how my bangs cover my eyes: it helps me block out the things I don’t want to see.”-August thinking

Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But...

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way...

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment!

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

When it comes to developing a worldview, we tend to face this false division: Either you are a realist who says the world is terrible, or a naïve optimist who says the world is wonderful...

Each day is filled with beautiful splendid.

What’s seldom is wonderful.

A stubborn refusal of the conditions of 20th Century ‘reality’, surrealism has denied intransigently and consistently that modern man can live without a sense of wonder at the world that was once embodied in myth....

Those who dwell , as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations and concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can...

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not gifted in poetry, it is at least worth while from...

What Wonder understood, that Otto did not, is that if your idea spreads, you win,

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature’s production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in...

The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are incapable of matching. It teaches...

Mr. Leonardo DiCaprio – he be soo gorgeous, no wonder all the ladies flockin’ to him – He be Gatsby.

So beautiful! I had no idea! I had no idea…

From time to timeI once wondered how one wanders from time to timeAnd think up the paradox lineSpeak of Epoch’s crimeOh I lied, it hasn’t happened yetBut bet you better believe it’s such a habit...

Truth is so rare. I wonder why it is and where you are?